Fringe - skipped Friday (but Jude Law rocks!)

[dreamshark]

For my own records only (since I look back at these entries later) - neither of us attended any Fringe shows on Friday. Richard had his game night, and I had a really stressful week at work and not a lot of sleep, and just didn't have the energy to go out.

Instead I watched "Road to Perdition." It's a very slow, emotionally numbing, beautifully photographed movie with a star-studded cast and lots of dead bodies. It will never be on my list of favorite movies, but since it was already in our house for some reason, it was worth watching. It cemented my view that Tom Hanks is a perfectly competent actor that I don't particularly care for, but Jude Law is maybe the best actor of his generation. I now realize that I have seen Law in at least 5 or 6 movies, but usually don't recognize him because he is such a good actor that he makes a completely different impression each time. In this movie he plays the psychopathic photographer. Tom Hanks lumbers around for the first half of the movie putting me to sleep whenever he is on camera. Then the Jude Law character shows up and the movie comes ALIVE. He then disappears for quite a while and it's back to being an incredibly beautiful, statically violent slide show.

Now that I think about it, the same thing happened in AI, a movie that was completely stolen by the all-too-short performance of Jude Law as the Love-Bot.

Comments

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

I never saw "Road to Perdition," but I did see the trailers and they left me somewhat confused. I couldn't tell which character was supposed to be Hope and which was supposed to be Crosby.